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DBMS > Firebird vs. JSqlDb vs. SpatiaLite vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. JSqlDb vs. SpatiaLite vs. VelocityDB

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesSpatial extension of SQLiteA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgjsqldb.org (offline)www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperFirebird FoundationKonrad von BackstromAlessandro FurieriVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201820082011
Current release5.0.0, January 20240.8, December 20185.0.0, August 20207.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLfunctions in JavaScriptnono
TriggersyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing RocksDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoBased on Windows Authentication

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